Literature Sources

Study Guide Sites for Novels and Short Stories Taught at WHS

Reviews, Criticism, Analysis  |  Indexes/Abstracts  | Authors
Grammar, Vocabulary, Writing   |  Poetry  |  Quotation Anthologies
Electronic Texts  | Resources for Writers  |  Shakespeare

Reviews, Criticism, and Analysis

• A Guide to Finding Literary Criticism in the WHS Library

 
• Abridged Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature - Ref 031 ABR

Book Reviews are in a separate section that can be located in the back of each index.  Locate biographical information on authors by looking under their last name.  Check the list of magazine titles held by WHSL, then ask at the Circulation Desk for the issue you want!
 
• Amazon.com - Contains both reliable literary reviews and personal reviews/reflections from individuals who have read the books.   http://www.amazon.com

 
• American and English Language Internet Resources -    http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/litbib.html

 
• Booklist -  http://www.ala.org/booklist

 
• Contemporary Literary Criticism - Ref 809 CON (vol 57-63)

 
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters - Ref 803 MAG

 
• The English Server - one of the oldest and most extensive collections of electronic resources for those interested in literature.  http://eserver.org/

 
• Expanded Academic ASAP - Check the information page for appropriate login information.

 
• Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection - Maintains the largest index to the free literary criticism on the Web, linking to over 2,500 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works. http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

 
• Library of Literary Criticism:  modern American literature - 810.9 NYR

 
• A Literary Index (Vanderbilt) -   http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html

 
• Literary Sources on the Net (Rutgers) -    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/

 
• New York Times Book Review Archive -    http://www.nytimes.com/books/home

 
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature, a research guide (Cal- State, Stanislaus) - A gateway to material on major writers and periods from the time of Anne Bradstreet through the twentieth century.  Resources include annotated links to notable Web sites, brief essays on major themes and issues, bibliographies, and critical discussion questions.  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

 
• Pilot-Search:  a literary search engine -   http://www.pilot-search.com/

 
• Reader's Handbook - Ref 803 BRE (v. 1-2)

 
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (citations only) - http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/

A FREE database containing references to articles in magazines and chapters in books on science fiction, fantasy, supernatural and (some) horror fiction, including information on authors and criticism.
 
• SparkNotes - A collection of concise, comprehensive, easy-to-follow study guides that you can access at any time for *free* written and produced by Harvard undergraduate and graduate students.  Include study questions, characters, chapter-by-chapter summaries and analysis, and a list for further reading.  http://www.sparknotes.com/

 
• The Victorian Web - http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html

An exploration of Victorian England. Sections include Victorianism, religion, philosophy, literature, and science. A text only version is also available.  Hosted by George P. Landow at Brown University.

Indexes and Abstracts

• Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database (citations only) - http://library.tamu.edu/cushing/sffrd/

A FREE database containing references to articles in magazines and chapters in books on science fiction, fantasy, supernatural and (some) horror fiction, including information on authors and criticism.

Authors

• American Authors, 1600-1900 - Ref 809 KUN

 
• British Authors of the 19th Century - Ref 809 KUN

 
• British Authors before 1800 - Ref 809 KUN

 
• Twentieth Century Authors - Ref 809 KUN

 
• Junior Authors (series) - Ref 809 JUN
•     Junior Book of Authors
•     More Junior Authors
•     Third Book of Junior Authors
•     Fourth  Book of Junior Authors
•     Fifth Book of Junior Authors
•     Sixth Book of Junior Authors
•     Seventh Book of Junior Authors

• Great Writers -    http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html

 
• Internet Public Library Literary Criticism Collection - The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about North American and British (and Irish) authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.   http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/

• American Authors - http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html

This site has over 100 American author biographies, most of which include a photo, links to other relevant sites, and all works available online.
 
• British and Irish Authors on the Web - An extensive listing of sites (official and unofficial) for information on authors by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

 
• American Authors on the Web -   Again, an extensive listing of sites for information on authors by Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.  http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

 
• Yahoo! Literary Authors - http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Authors/

 
• The Nobel Channel - http://www.nobelchannel.com

Visit this Web site and find information about the Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureates and their achievements, award ceremonies, and more.

Grammar, Vocabulary, and Writing Tools

• Writers Inc. - Ref 808.42 WRI

THE resource used at WHS as the authority for citing sources, doing bibliographies, end pages, etc.  A copy is also available for check-out in the general collection under the same Dewey number.

• Nuts & Bolts of College Writing - http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is for anyone who wants to write better. It's intended mainly for college students, but it has also helped lots of other people around the world learn how to write more clearly, gracefully, and effectively. (From Washington College, Chestertown, MD, Dr. Michael Harvey.)
 
• Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT) - An American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus, "contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms." http://www.wordsmyth.net

 
• Merriam Webster's Word Central - Check out this fun site for a dictionary, thesaurus, word histories (ethnography), rhyming dictionary and more! http://www.wordcentral.com/

 
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) - This site's goal is to provide students with the resources they need to help themselves become better writers:  lots of composition and grammar help, resume writing workshop, guides to non-sexist language, and overcoming writer's block.    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

 
• Grammar Bytes - Less scholarly than OWL, this site features an index of grammar terms, rules, interactive exercises, and handouts for students and teachers. http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm

Poetry

• Poetry of Kansas - http://skyways.lib.ks.us/poetry/

Quotation Anthologies

• [Bartlett's] Familiar Quotations (1992)- Ref  808.88 BAR

 
• Bartlett's Quotations (1901) -  http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html

 
• Creative Quotations -   http://creativequotations.com/

 
• Home Book of Quotations - Ref 808.88 STE

 
• Magill's Quotations in Context - Ref 808.88 MAG

 
• Quotations Page -   http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/

 
• Treasury of Modern Quotations - Ref 808.88 REA

Electronic Text Sources

• American Verse Project (Univ. Michigan - Humanities Text Initiative) - http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/

 
• Electronic Text Center (Univ. of Virginia)  -   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html

 
• The Internet Classics Archive -   http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

 
• Project Bartleby - Full text poetry.   http://www.bartleby.com/

 
• Internet Library's Online Text Collection -   http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

 

Resources for Writers

• Resources for Writers and Writing -    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html

 
• Writers Inc - Ref 808.42 WRI

THE resource used at WHS as the authority for citing sources, doing bibliographies, end pages, etc.  A copy is also available for check-out in the general collection under the same Dewey number.
 
• Elements of Style (Strunk, 1918) -     http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

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